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Women's History Network

For anyone with a passion for women’s history

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Tag: Women’s History

Event, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Persistence pays off, as women are finally elected to the London County Council.

WHN / March 5, 2010

Today is special for those who know women can be fantastic local councillors. Women came to that role through a struggle that hasn’t ended. About 30% of councillors are women now, and it has stuck around that level for the…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Miss Georgiana Fyfe

WHN / March 1, 2010

At the outbreak of the First World War Miss Georgiana Fyfe joined Dr Hector Munro’s ‘Flying Ambulance’ Corps in Flanders. Dr Munro was an eccentric Scottish specialist.  He wanted to send out a detachment of women daringly dressed in khaki…

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Summer Seminar Series 2026

April 22, 2026
Wang Duanshu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Boudoir Laments: Reading Gender and Spatiality in the Lyrics of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Gentlewomen – Yuemin He

April 20, 2026

Winner of the 2025 MA Dissertation Prize

April 20, 2026

Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914’, with Dr Kellie Bradshaw

April 13, 2026
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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914’, with Dr Kellie Bradshaw
  • Seminar Klaxon: ‘A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016’ – Dr Samuel Beckton
  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’ with Dr Ellen Hope Durban
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